East Boston Infill and Small Developments

^ Sadly destroyed. The building was allegedly unstable and the city encouraged its demolition. Should have been an adaptive reuse project.
 
Beton Brut said:
^ Sadly destroyed. The building was allegedly unstable and the city encouraged its demolition. Should have been an adaptive reuse project.
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That sucks... they should've kept the arch like they did here (actually it probably would have been corny, maybe cool though).

I thought I'd tooled around here recently and was surprised on the streetview since I wouldve remembered a cool structure and sign like that.
 
datadyne007 said:
11/17/16 - BPDA Board Meeting:

Board approves 64 residential units for 301-303 Border Street in #EastBoston http://ow.ly/zSxt306hKSF

https://twitter.com/BostonPlans/status/799376875856359425

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This was approved by the ZBA last night, much to the neighborhood's discontent who want parking galore & less units, per usual. This is a remarkably dense approval for Eastie and hopefully symbolizes a new direction in Eastie.

It works out to 64 units per half acre & 0.66 parking spaces per unit.

http://www.universalhub.com/2016/condo-building-border-street-east-boston-wins
 
tysmith95 said:
^I think Jeff was thinking of Jeffries Point/Maverick. Basically no airplane noise there (though that area is gentrifying).
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Yes, I was more thinking of the downtown facing waterfront areas, that have been really slow to develop, Jeffries Point/Maverick.
 
I think Google needs to update its address locations in its pictures.

It is showing the old former factory building at 6 New Street. As we all know, the old building has since been removed and a new building was put there.

How often do they update street locations? Not very often, it seems. :confused:
 
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datadyne007 said:
It works out to 64 units per half acre & 0.66 parking spaces per unit.

http://www.universalhub.com/2016/condo-building-border-street-east-boston-wins
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From Ari's napkin math in the comment section, this is almost looking affordable:

That's $337k/unit. So while not cheap, it's probably on the order of $450k-$350-$250 for 3-2-1 bedrooms. On frequent bus lines, reasonably close to the Blue Line, and without an overage of parking. Of course, we probably need this 1000 times over in the region to make a dent in the housing crisis.
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Today in how to make money in real estate: Paul Roiff & Heath Properties have apparently sold the building at 151-155 Porter St (175 Orleans Street) for $14.75 million. Project was approved by BPDA last year.

Roiff bought it in 2013 for $2.5 million.

From BPDA: 183 Orleans LLC proposes the rehabilitation of the historic structure at 175 Orleans Street, into a 127-room loft style boutique hotel, Loftel Boston. The rehabilitation will also include one additional stories and 65 at grade parking spaces.

FK4 said:
New boutique hotel, 151 Porter St:

edit - deleted failed images, thx data ill try again next time
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